Our Team

Multidisciplinary Expertise. Global Perspective. Practical Experience.

W&A brings together a diverse multidisciplinary team of lawyers, tax advisers, finance and accounting professionals, business advisers, HR specialists and ESG professionals, supported by experienced managers, consultants, associates and operational specialists.

Our senior professionals bring nearly 20 years of experience in Vietnam, together with extensive exposure to international businesses, multinational groups, foreign investors and complex cross-border matters. Our collective experience spans professional consulting, corporate leadership and hands-on operational roles — giving us a practical understanding of both how to advise and how to implement.

We have advised and worked within organizations across a broad range of industries and business environments, combining legal judgment, tax expertise, financial intelligence, commercial understanding, operational experience and international perspective.

This hybrid background enables W&A to approach client matters differently: not as isolated legal, tax, financial or management issues, but as interconnected business challenges requiring integrated, commercially workable solutions.

Experience Across the Full Business and Wealth Lifecycle

Our team’s capabilities extend across every major practice of W&A, allowing us to support clients from market entry and day-to-day operations to transformation, transactions, international expansion, succession and private wealth planning.

Legal

Our legal practice brings together experience across the full spectrum of corporate, transactional and regulatory matters, including:

Corporate & Commercial
Investment & Market Entry
Licensing & Regulatory
M&A & Transactions
Employment & Labour
Commercial Contracts
Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Real Estate & Construction
Data, Technology & Privacy
Outbound Investment

Our professionals combine transactional and advisory experience with practical exposure to corporate governance, investment licensing, regulatory approvals, commercial negotiations, restructuring and dispute management. The team has experience supporting complex M&A transactions, corporate reorganizations, commercial contracts, investment projects, regulatory matters and arbitration and litigation proceedings.

This allows us to look beyond the legal document itself and understand its commercial, financial, tax and operational implications.

Tax

Our tax professionals advise businesses, investors and individuals across domestic and international tax matters, including:

Corporate Tax
International Tax
VAT & Indirect Taxes
Personal Tax & Global Mobility
Foreign Contractor Tax
Transfer Pricing
Customs & International Trade
Tax Structuring & Business Restructuring
Tax Compliance & Reporting
Tax Audits, Investigations & Disputes
Transaction Tax & M&A
Cross-Border Tax Planning

The team combines tax technical knowledge with backgrounds in law, finance, accounting and business operations. Experience includes international and cross-border transaction structuring, transfer pricing, tax risk management, tax audits and regulatory defence, enabling W&A to evaluate tax issues in the context of the client’s wider business model and commercial objectives.

Finance

Our finance and accounting professionals bring together substantial experience from both professional advisory environments and senior in-house finance functions. Our capabilities include:

Accounting & Bookkeeping
Financial Reporting & Compliance
Management Accounting & Reporting
Financial Planning & Analysis
Budgeting & Forecasting
Cash Flow & Working Capital Management
CFO & Financial Management Support
Internal Audit & Internal Controls
Financial Modelling
IFRS & Financial Reporting Advisory
Finance Process Improvement
Finance Systems & Transformation
Transaction & Financial Due Diligence
Performance & Profitability Analysis

Members of the team have held roles responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, financial modelling, Board reporting, finance systems, process transformation and business coordination. Others have managed full accounting functions, financial controls, tax compliance and operational finance.

This means our recommendations are developed with a clear understanding of what finance teams and management can actually implement in practice.

Business Advisory

Our Business Advisory team combines management, finance, operational, HR, governance and sustainability perspectives to help organizations become stronger, more efficient and better prepared for growth and change. Our capabilities cover:

HR Advisory

Organization and workforce planning
HR strategy and operating models
Compensation & benefits
Salary benchmarking
Performance management and KPI systems
HR policies and procedures
Employee engagement and retention
Workforce restructuring
Executive and expatriate HR matters
HR compliance and administration
Payroll and employee-related processes
HR transformation and process improvement

ESG & Sustainability

ESG strategy and roadmaps
ESG governance
Sustainability reporting
Environmental & Social risk management
Sustainable and climate finance
GHG accounting
Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
Climate-risk assessment
Decarbonisation planning
ESG due diligence
Supply-chain ESG
ESG data and assurance readiness
International sustainability frameworks

Our dedicated ESG capability includes international experience in sustainability assurance, environmental due diligence, climate accounting, sustainability reporting and decarbonisation, together with wider legal, financial, governance and risk-management expertise.

Business Process & Transformation

Business process review and optimization
SOP development and implementation
Process mapping and workflow redesign
Delegation of Authority
Approval matrices
Operating-model transformation
Finance and HR process transformation
Digitalization and automation readiness
Organizational restructuring
Post-transaction integration
Change management
Implementation support

Our professionals have direct experience managing finance-system transformation, workflow redesign, gap analysis, process enhancement, implementation and organizational change from within businesses.

Corporate Governance & Enterprise Risk

Corporate governance frameworks
Board and management governance
Delegation of authority
Enterprise risk management
Compliance governance
Internal policies and controls
Related-party governance
Conflict-of-interest frameworks
Ethics and whistleblowing
Fraud-risk management
Business continuity
Risk and compliance frameworks

Strategy & Performance Advisory

Business strategy and planning
Business-model review
Performance management
KPI frameworks
Management dashboards
Budgeting and forecasting
Cost optimization
Profitability improvement
Scenario planning
Business restructuring
Turnaround advisory
Growth and expansion strategy

Our Business Advisory approach is deliberately implementation focused. We aim to provide not only recommendations, but also practical policies, processes, tools, frameworks and implementation support that management teams can use in their day-to-day operations.

Private Wealth

Our Private Wealth practice brings together expertise from across W&A to support entrepreneurs, business owners, private investors and families whose personal wealth, business interests and investments increasingly span multiple jurisdictions.

Our capabilities include:

Private Tax & Global Mobility

Personal and cross-border taxation, tax residency, foreign income, investment income, treaty matters and internationally mobile individuals.

Wealth & Asset Structuring

Global ownership structures, investment holdings, family holding companies, SPVs, real estate and other asset-holding arrangements.

Estate, Succession & Legacy Planning

Succession planning, inheritance, wills, intergenerational wealth transfers, ownership succession and legacy planning.

Family Business & Governance

Family-business succession, ownership governance, family constitutions, next-generation planning and separation of management and ownership.

Trusts, Foundations & Fiduciary Structures

Cross-border structuring involving trusts, private foundations and other fiduciary arrangements, working with appropriate specialists in relevant jurisdictions where required.

Private Investments & Transactions

Private investments, direct investments, M&A, business acquisitions and disposals, shareholder exits, real estate transactions and cross-border investment structuring.

Family Office Advisory

Family-office structuring, governance, legal and tax coordination, ownership structures, succession planning and coordination with banks, investment managers, trustees and other international advisers.

The multidisciplinary nature of W&A allows private-wealth matters to be considered through legal, tax, financial, investment, governance and succession perspectives at the same time, rather than through a single professional discipline.

Professional Expertise Meets Corporate Experience

One of W&A’s defining strengths is the combination of professional advisory experience and real-world corporate leadership.

Our professionals have worked as external advisers to businesses and investors, while others have served within companies as finance leaders, financial controllers, chief accountants, business coordinators, legal and compliance professionals and operational managers. Their responsibilities have included financial management, accounting, tax, governance, systems, processes, budgeting, Board reporting, workforce matters, negotiations with counterparties and interaction with regulators and professional advisers.

As a result, our team understands both sides:

What technically should be done — and what can realistically be done.

Vietnam Experience. Global Perspective.

W&A combines deep experience in Vietnam with an international outlook.

Our professionals have worked with multinational corporations, international investors, financial institutions and businesses operating across jurisdictions. The team has experience with international financial reporting standards, cross-border transactions, international taxation, transfer pricing, foreign investment, global sustainability frameworks and international commercial matters.

Certain members of our team have also studied and worked internationally and advised on projects involving Europe and other international markets, bringing additional exposure to global professional standards, ESG frameworks and cross-border business practices.

For matters involving multiple jurisdictions, W&A works collaboratively with appropriate local counsel, tax specialists, fiduciary professionals, financial institutions and other international advisers, while maintaining a coordinated approach for the client.

A Team Built for Complex Assignments

W&A’s delivery model enables us to combine senior strategic attention with the depth of a broader multidisciplinary team.

Engagements can bring together lawyers, tax professionals, accountants, finance specialists, HR advisers, ESG professionals, business advisers and other specialists depending on the requirements of each assignment. This allows the firm to maintain senior oversight while mobilizing the technical and operational resources needed for detailed execution.

Whether the matter involves one discipline or several interconnected issues, we work collaboratively rather than through separate professional silos.

One Team. Multiple Perspectives. Practical Solutions.

We believe the best advice comes from understanding the whole picture.

That is why W&A brings together legal, tax, finance, business, people and private-wealth perspectives to help our clients make better decisions, manage complexity and move forward with confidence.